THE FRAME GAME
have said it before, but it remains a detail that proves remarkable to me: there are select brands that began their lives in countries that do not exist any more. There is something impossibly romantic, even fantastical, about that. Granted, this is largely to do with the geopolitical upheaval that Europe has endured over the past few centuries of rising and declining empires, world wars and reunifications. As a Briton, we (and the heritage brands herein) stayed under one flag, and so are not used to shifting allegiances. In contrast, for example, E.B. Meyrowitz was established in
